First and foremost, i apologize to
EVERYONE at the tournament who was forced to stay later than they would have liked. I know I was one of them, I was absolutely beat by the end of the night.
I think everything that was ever possible to make a tournament go on longer happened at this tournament. We had power outages, a million jigg dittos on dreamland, every finals set the loser winning and taking it to the 5th match 2nd set, not having nearly enough setups, but most importantly people not playing matches, especially in pools. One more huge problem was people just jackingt their setups at the end of the first day or the middle of the second day. Setups were paid out $15 each so people would leave them there the whole weekend, not 3 hours. Oh well, lesson learned.
I was entirely too naive for this tournament, and for that I payed and everything got messed up, ending at like 4 AM. I expect everyone to play their matches for pools as fast as they can, when in reality people just putz around and don't really do anything, and it's nearly impossible to keep track of 240 people at once and enforce on them.
That being said, and that being a factor, I do realize that the blame falls mostly on me, though.
Aside from this, I'd appreciate if people didn't really ***** too much about the 4 AM ending because I already know
I ****ED UP. I've been really upset about it, most likely moreso than anyone participating in the tournament, and I realize what happened was completely awful. I'm sorry.
Aside from THAT, I hope everyone had a lot of fun. I know i enjoyed the few matches I got to play (tournament matches, and 1 friendly with azen
) but that's fine, it's the life of a tourney director, lol.
I'll have brackets and stuff up today or tomorrow, I need a rest for a bit.
Congrats to mango, pc, azen, m2k, and other top finishers, I enjoyed watching those matches.
As far as items left at the venue, I think we found a silver controller and a blue cube or something. Korn, we found your blue falcon controller (I THINK) however we did not find your camera. Wobbles, my girilfriend found a pair of blakc gloves at the venue, I think they're yours.
That being said, I don't think I'm going to host any more tournaments, maybe someone else in TA will pick up the slack. I prepared as much in advance for this tournament as I could, and things went nowhere near as I had hoped. I just don't have the ability to control that many people like I should to be in that position. EIther way, I'll be around, and I'm sure melee tournaments will be too. Brawl is looking ****ty, still, so we'll see how it goes.
I'm out for now, PM me if you have any questions or anything I can help you with.
Again guys, im sorry